Marist Catholic College North Shore
Boys catholic school in North Sydney, Australia
Marist Catholic College North Shore (often shortened to Marist North Shore or abbreviated as MCCNS) is an independent systemic Roman Catholic K–12 coeducational precinct (day school), located in North Sydney, Australia.
Established in 1888, Marist Catholic College North Shore is conducted by Sydney Catholic Schools, based on the teachings of its patrons St. Marcellin Champagnat and St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. The school caters to roughly 1300 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The precinct is administered by the Catholic Education Office for the Archdiocese of Sydney, and is affiliated with the Association of Marist Schools of Australia (AMSA), as well as the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC).
History
Marist Brother's School North Sydney (1888–1916)
Marist Brother's School North Sydney was first established on 2 July 1888 by the school's first headmaster, Br Walter Moore. Originally catering for boys in primary to intermediate years (Years 1–10), the school would not go on to teach Secondary (Years 7–12) years until 1965 and then in 2021 would change again to educate both girls and boys from Kindergarten through to Year 12.
The Marist Brothers originally opened the school in response to the educational needs of the poor in the North Sydney area, which was, at the time, a low socioeconomic area. The school was the fourth Marist School opened in Australia after Church Hill (1872), Parramatta (1875) and Hunters Hill (1881) and had a teaching staff of three Brothers and an enrolment of 65 boys. The school initially started as a two-room campus on the site of what is now the St Mary's Campus (Ridge Street).
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